San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-19
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs.


move costly merchandise and systemsti
oally dispose OF their plumber, becomes
epidemic. An epidemic of convictions
as q counter irritant, and OF long time
sentences as an anodyne, may prove Ell"
feotiye.
The Catholic societies Of America are
among our strongest temperance organi-
cations, many OF them. The cause OF
genuine temperance has made great
progress among American Catholics
during the past few years, and yet, as
rule, the Catholic vote can be very gen
orally counted against prohibition meas
ures, as witness the recent vote OF the
st. Joseph Benevolent society OF this
city on last Sunday afternoon. Put II
down as n rule, those most In favor OF
prohibition do not favor wise measures
Of temperance reforms
The conservative Tory Salisbury
Churchill Chamberlain party In Eng
land, smarting under the blows they
have received in the course Of the crimes
act debate, and fearful Of the growing
importance and power OF the anti-coer-
ciOn feeling which Gladstone and Par.
nell have 50 universally evoked. have re-
sorted to the miserable subterfuge OF
forgery In order to discredit Parnell
with the English people. The same
thing was tried in this country In the
vain attempt to prevent Gsrfield's cleo
ton ss president. 1t failed In the United
states. This cowardly attempt In Great
Britain will also fail,
The friends of Irish liberty in America
will be very much gratified TO learn that
Mr.. Parnell has authorized the emphatic
tai SNft ha laff h
conservative falsifers, as given In our
Yesterdays dispatches. Mr.. ParDell
will make that denial emphatic when
he rises 10 denouDce the forgery in the
house of commons.
The interstate commission Ia not deal
ing with hypOthecated cases. Only such
cases as actually arise in the operation
of the interstate law, and which are
deemed hardship by those who come
| actually under their provisions are
passed upon by the commission. The
commission is not a court Of interpre-
/ tation, but court OF appeal to which
those come for redress who experience
hardship under the operations OF the In
| terstate law. If this fact were borne In
mind the commission would receive
about one application for deliversnce,
where score are now filed.
JAMES G. BLAINE Is slowly recovering
and will make the return journey to
Maine by easy stages rs rapidly as is
consistent with safety. He thinks there
is no place in which he will recruit as
rapidly RS there. He left Fort Gibson
last night. Much more concern and
sympathy is felt for the man who ought
to have been president than for the one
who is.
DALLAS has sworn her mayor, Conner,
into the chief magistrates seat. and Ed.
q. Smith files very vigorous protest
against the proceeding and will contest
the election on the ground of fraud.
Dallas, not content with running two
fairs, now has double-bsrreled mayor
case on hand. The city seems to have
been born twins.
The knights of Pythias find hearty
welcome in the old Alamo city. May
their shadows never grow less.
The concessions gained at Rome from
the pApacy, through Cardinal Gibbons
efforts, are very material, aud will most
sensibly affect the welfare Of the Knights
of Labor In America. The penalties i'm
posed by TasChereau may not be rigidly
enforced, II the papal council take the
steps indicated in the recent dispatches
from Rome. In the United States no
disabilities have attached, no penalties
have been imposed. and under the new
ruling OF the council none will be posi-
Bile. No other anti-Catholic order, with
secrets, has ever secured such a cOnces.
sion from Rome.
The Paris Daily News would be ever
lastingly happy to see prohibition law
on the statute book of Texas, nOtwith-
lsstanding ii means free whisky and no
protection to municipal interests. 1t
places upon the people the burden of
enforcing an impractlcable law, and
condemns them for doing what in the
very nature OF the case they cannot. A
little country town like Paris may pos
sibly enforce the law, but in the larger
cities, where the sentiment Is openly
against The law, it cannot be enforced;
for no law has, can, or will be enforced
unless there is behind the law public
sentiment strong enough to compel ODE
dience to its requirements.
The attempt to elicit any information
concerning the real financial condition
of San Antonio seems to be the pursuit
OF knowledge under difficulties. The fl
nance committee OF the city council do
not appear TO be able TO get ut the true
.
better than the common run of taxpay-
ers. The attempt of Chairman Belknap,
OF that committee, at last evenings SEES
sion Of the council, to discover where
the money was to come from TO meet
certain expenses contemplated or in
Cured was not distinguished success.
From the questions asked by him. and
the replies of his honor, the mayor, il
would seem that the city expended last
year about 100000 In excess of its rev.
enue, and was now running on borrowed
money, the revenues not being available
until the end of the fiscal year. The re-
ply shows that the city Is living from
hand to mouth, going deeper and deeper
into debt and having very little 10 show
for IL. This ia not the first nor the sc O.
ond time that the finance committee of
the council has attempted to bring Or
der out OF chaos and reduce matters to
some system. The result has not been
encouraging to the committee nor salts
factory 10 the city. The council seem to
be very much in the condition OF a water
logged ship. The Finance committee,
which appears to be the only committee
OF the council with a business idea of
the municipal affair, should not be de-
tered from pushing Its enquiries by any
cold shoulder business. The city is look
ing to them for results.
SETTLERS from Erath, Brown, Cole
man, Comanche and Eastand counties.
are fleeing from that section of the state
where it Is said no rain has fallen for
twenty-five months, and are making
their way westward for California. Set
tiers from California Disguised and dis
Amounted with that cnuntrv arc copoinD